SCOOP: WIRED has learned the identity of the DOGE operative at the center of a whistleblower complaint about social security data www.wired.com/story/john-s... by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

The “uNfOrTuNaTe fLaW” he's referring to is that the state's abortion ban has no rape or incest exception. 🤬 But this is no accident; these policies are DESIGNED to violate our basic human rights. For the extremists who champion these violent laws, this is a feature, not a bug.

Trump's invasion is the most unpopular war in modern US history. That matters. It shows the public is not reflexively pro war even at moments of intense propaganda bombardment. It's really tanking with groups Trump made inroads among. Look at the numbers below! 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2076...

As a congressman, Markwayne Mullin made not one but two solo trips to Afghanistan, ignoring State Department warnings so he could play action hero. He’s a former amateur MMA fighter, not a veteran. If he’d been captured or injured, American troops would’ve had to risk their lives to bail him out.

We don't have good data from the federal government yet on ACA enrollment following the expiration of enhanced premium subsidies. But, the leading ACA insurer, Centene, says its enrollment has dropped from 5.5 million at the end of last year to 3.6 million. www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/cente...

Two decades into the John Roberts era, indifference - at times hostility — toward voting rights “has become a central theme in this Court’s philosophy,” @kareemcrayton.bsky.social writes in ABA Journal’s Human Rights magazine.

The Helicopter Mommy party: poised to swoop in on a split-second's notice to protect Republicans from the consequences of their own idiocy.

The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings. www.wired.com/story/they-h...

The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

coughing in ...the Border Security Working Group was run by sheriffs.

11 hours later: No public statements from any House Republican leaders on Ogles' post. No denunciation from any House Republicans. No responses to any of my requests for comment from House Republican leaders, U.S. senators from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party or Ogles' office.

We (the U.S. but the whole planet really) will have no peace until everyone connected to this admin is held accountable.

Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.

For a story in @thesicktimes.org, seeking organizers in any left movement work who’ve taken a break or fully stepped away from organizing sometime since 2020 due to Long COVID. They can be anonymous in the piece and may reach out directly at longdefeat.08 on Signal #LongCOVID #NEISvoid

I can't compete with this.

I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them. They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲 Check it out (link below)!

With every new development in this story I am even more gobsmacked that Epstein and his co-conspirators escaped accountability over and over and over again. There's more to come from my investigation. Stay tuned.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Similar rationale used when he sexually assaulted a drunk woman in in Monterrey, California in 2017 and then threw a hotel room towel at her and told her to “clean” herself up. Then later paid her $50k

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

THREAD. Late last summer I moved my newsletter away from Substack. I was not comfortable with the site's political choices, did not want to give 10% of my income to venture capitalists & felt Substack had reneged on their commitment to long form writing. My newsletter is now here: www.tom-cox.com

Ohio to lose 33 billion to Medicaid cuts. It will get, at most, 1 billion in rural health funding. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/27/a...

Reporting on the Iran war shows, unsurprisingly, how extremely one-sided it is. So far. Just remember that on May 1 23 years ago, when George W. Bush presented his “Mission Accomplished” speech, only 3% of the Americans who would be killed in the Iraq war had been.

And - no surprise here - Steve Daines announced his retirement in the shadiest way possible, pulling his re-election filing at the last minute and allowing another candidate (his chosen replacement I’m sure) to file *8 minutes* before the deadline, preventing a GOP primary.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

I work with really, really, really smart people, and they are extra super genius level smart about Texas, so you should listen to this. Also I'm going to be on tomorrow with someone rather a lot smarter than me, so you should subscribe now because who knows how that is going to go! (spoiler: fine)

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

Greg Bovino “is under criminal investigation in Minneapolis for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in a Monday press conference.” talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

If you are a Texas voter, you need to read this👇

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

Two days into the war: - three F-15s shot down - U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames - six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded - State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.

If Platner wins the primary and s–– goes awry, you'll find me in a rocking chair with Blacksky (and others), muttering "we tried to tell y'all."

Idaho's proposal to essentially end home care is the first sign that last year's tax cut bill could be disastrous for people with disabilities in the U.S. Terrific, worrisome story from @slooterman.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2026/03/idah...

This dirty fucking hippie is damned tired of being right about just about everything since 2000. Especially the folly of "looking forward, not backward" in 2009.

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"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

The King is mad

70% of voters say the Dem Party is too weak 40% say it is too progressive So why is the money & energy in Dem spaces so tilted 2 moderation? Why is every "smart" analysis about how the party has been taken over by "groups"? How does that win over the 70%? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.